Category Archives: YPS Journal

This is an archive of YPS Newsletters.

Dṛṣṭi, the YPS Journal, wins the prestigious Arthur P Henricks Memorial Award, the topmost award at the PSA Newsletter Contest, for the 2nd time!

The Arthur P Henricks Memorial Award honors Photographic Society of America’s (PSA) President from 1975-79. This award is made to the publication with the highest score.

The Newsletter Contest draws many entries from photographic clubs across the globe. All entries are reviewed by a panel of three judges and the awards are determined based on criteria in three areas: Presentation, Production, and Content.

The Mar-Apr 2025 issue of Dṛṣṭi, which was submitted for this contest, was ranked #1 with Top Scores, bagging the Arthur P Henricks Memorial Award.

Two Additional Special Awards for this issue:

BEST COVER PAGE

Long Horn Beetle by Raghuram Annadana

BEST TECHNICAL ARTICLE

An Introduction to 3D Photography by Dr V G Mohanan Nair

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DṚṢṬI WINS AWARDS AT PSA NEWSLETTER CONTEST – 2024

January 13, 2026 Member Administrator

DṚṢṬI WINS FOR THE 4^THYEAR IN A ROW

Honorable Mention

Directors Choice Award

Best Cover Page

The 2024 PSA Newsletter contest, conducted by Photographic Society of America (PSA) draws many entries from photographic clubs across the globe. All the entries are reviewed by a panel of three judges and the awards are determined based on criteria in three areas: Presentation, Production, and Content.

The Mar-Apr 2024 issue of Dṛṣṭi was submitted for this contest. The Cover Page by Sathya Vagale was titled ‘Wonder What The Future Holds For Me’

The Executive Committee congratulates Dṛṣṭi’s lead Mr Digwas Bellemane, the Editorial Team and Mr Sathya Vagale for his image on the cover page. It also congratulates and thanks all its contributors for making our journal win accolades at this contest.

Dṛṣṭi had won Honourable Mention awards for two consecutive years, 2021 and 2022 respectively and with the top award in 2023, Dṛṣṭi had set a Hat-trick.

Comment by a jury:

‘This is a tremendous magazine with so much information alongside the articles that covers so much within the issue’.

Out of the twenty-five entries in the magazine category, 22 were from the USA, 2 from India and 1 from the UK

Team Dṛṣṭi:

Editor
Manju Vikas Sastry V, ESFIP, AFIP

Editorial Team
B V Prakash
Digwas Bellemane, EFIAP/g, EPSA, ESFIP, EFIP
M S Kakade
Prema Kakade, ESFIP, EFIAP, EFIP, GPA.PESGSPC, cMoL, E.CPE

To download the Mar-Apr 2024 issue:https://www.ypsbengaluru.com/download/16596/

YPS Journal

DṚṢṬI WINS TOP AWARD AT PSA NEWSLETTER CONTEST – 2023

September 22, 2023 Event Administrator

Dṛṣṭi wins Arthur P Henricks Jr Memorial Award– the top most award at the 2023 PSA Newsletter Competition.

The 2023 PSA Newsletter contest, conducted by Photographic Society of America (PSA) draws many entries from photographic clubs across the globe. All the entries are reviewed by a panel of three judges and the awards are determined based on criteria in three areas: Presentation, Production, and Content.

The Mar-Apr ‘23 issue of Dṛṣṭi which was submitted for this contest, was ranked #1 with Top scores in all categories, bagging the Arthur P Henricks Jr Memorial Award, termed by PSA as ‘The Best of the Best’.

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YPS Journal Dṛṣṭi wins at PSA Newsletter Contest

August 13, 2021 Website Administrator

Overall Contest – Honorable Mention 5
Best Front Page
Best Use of Photography and
Best Table of Contents

Youth Photographic Society is a member of Photographic Society of America (PSA) since Sep, 2020.

Every year, PSA conducts a Newsletter contest for its member clubs, councils, and PSA Chapters with an electronic or printed newsletter of one page or more, published two times a year or more. The contest for the year 2021 was open between 01 March 2021 and 01 June 2021. Any newsletter published after June 01 of the previous year could be submitted.

Entries are independently reviewed by two sets of three qualified judges. Awards are determined based on the ratings assigned by the judges. Content, layout, good use of space and photos, neatness, ease in reading, simplicity, and style are of basic importance in this judging.

Winning entries are awarded after the judging. Apart from overall contest winners, awards are also given for outstanding achievement in various categories such as Best Calendar presentation, etc. YPS took part in this contest in the ‘Large Clubs’ group (clubs with more than 75 members), submitting the Feb 2021 issue of “Dṛṣṭi” as its entry and came away with many awards in its kitty.

Team Dṛṣṭi

Editor
H Satish MFIAP, MICS, ARPS, cMoL, Hon MFIP (Nature), Hon YPS

Editorial Team
Ananth Kamat AFIP
B V Prakash
Digwas Bellemane EFIAP/b, EPSA, EFIP, EIUP, cMoL, A.CPE
M S Kakade
Prema Kakade EFIAP, EFIP, GPA.PESGSPC, cMoL, A.CPE
V Madhusudana D Rao AFIAP, cMoL

Design:
Graphics: Arun Poovaiah
Layout: Rajasimha Sathyanarayana AFIAP, AFIP, cMoL
Page Design: Digwas Bellemane EFIAP/b, EPSA, EFIP, EIUP, cMoL, A.CPE

-Anitha Mysore,
EFIAP/b, MPSA, EIUP, c**MoL, GPU CR-4, AAPS, EFIP, EFIP/g, EFIP/g (Nature), A.CPE, GPA, PESGSPC, G. APS, ES.CPE
YPS representative for PSA

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Dṛṣṭi Stand

July 31, 2020 lvqgp2

The All New Dṛṣṭi came into existence in June 2020. Dṛṣṭi monthly journal is designed to match the stature of YPS. It is colourful, has more than just info on programs and is attractive. Download and experience the new Dṛṣṭi.